Senior Enterprise Account Executive 

Black Duck helps organizations build secure, high‑quality software by minimizing risk and maximizing development speed. As a pioneer in application security, Black Duck delivers industry‑leading SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that help teams identify and remediate vulnerabilities across proprietary code, open‑source components, and application behavior. With powerful tools, services, and deep expertise, Black Duck enables organizations to secure the modern software supply chain and strengthen DevSecOps practices. 

Role Summary 

The Senior Enterprise Account Executive (Hunter) is responsible for acquiring new enterprise customers, penetrating greenfield accounts, and driving net‑new revenue for Black Duck’s Application Security platform, with a primary focus on Software Composition Analysis (SCA) and open‑source risk management. 

This role is built for a high‑energy, high‑impact seller who excels at prospecting, competitive displacement, and closing complex enterprise deals. You will engage senior engineering, security, and DevOps leaders to position Black Duck as the strategic solution for modern software supply chain security. 

Core Responsibilities 

New Logo Acquisition & Revenue Growth:

• Own the full new‑business sales cycle—from prospecting and qualification to technical evaluation, negotiation, and close. 
• Build and execute territory plans targeting high‑value enterprise prospects across industries. 
• Identify and develop greenfield opportunities through outbound prospecting, partner collaboration, and market intelligence. 
• Drive competitive takeouts and position Black Duck as the preferred SCA and AppSec platform. 
• Consistently achieve new‑logo ARR targets and pipeline creation goals. 

Executive Engagement & Value Selling:

• Build multi‑threaded relationships with CISOs, CTOs, AppSec leaders, DevOps executives, and procurement stakeholders. 
• Lead executive‑level conversations around open‑source governance, SBOM strategy, and secure SDLC modernization. 
• Deliver compelling business cases that quantify risk reduction, compliance alignment, and developer productivity gains. 

Sales Execution & Deal Leadership:

• Run disciplined, high‑velocity sales cycles with strong qualification, forecasting accuracy, and CRM hygiene. 
• Partner with Sales Engineering to guide prospects through technical validation, PoCs, and integration discussions. 
• Navigate complex procurement processes, legal reviews, and multi‑stakeholder decision cycles. 
• Collaborate with Marketing and SDR teams to accelerate pipeline generation and campaign execution. 

Market Expansion & Thought Leadership:

• Represent Black Duck at industry events, conferences, and customer briefings. 
• Provide market feedback to Product and Marketing to influence roadmap and positioning. 
• Stay current on AppSec trends, regulatory pressures, and emerging software supply chain risks. 

Qualifications 

Required

• 7–10+ years of enterprise new‑business sales experience in cybersecurity, DevSecOps, developer tooling, or related technical domains. 
• Proven track record of hunting and closing large, complex enterprise deals with multi‑million‑dollar ARR impact. 
• Strong understanding of Application Security, SCA, SBOM, and modern software supply chain challenges. 
• Ability to engage both technical and executive audiences with credibility and confidence. 
• Exceptional prospecting, negotiation, and strategic selling skills. 

Preferred 

• Experience selling SCA or AppSec platforms (e.g., Black Duck‑style solutions, Snyk, Veracode, Checkmarx, GitHub Advanced Security). 
• Familiarity with CI/CD ecosystems (GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket). 
• Background selling into Fortune 500 or global enterprise organizations. 

Success Indicators 

• Consistent attainment of new‑logo ARR and pipeline generation targets. 
• Strong competitive win rates and successful displacement of incumbent solutions. 
• Rapid expansion of Black Duck’s footprint within target industries and territories. 
• High‑quality forecasting and disciplined sales execution. 

Joining Capco means joining an organisation that is committed to an inclusive working environment where you’re encouraged to #BeYourselfAtWork. We celebrate individuality and recognize that diversity and inclusion, in all forms, is critical to success. It’s important to us that we recruit and develop as diverse a range of talent as we can and we believe that everyone brings something different to the table – so we’d love to know what makes you different. Such differences may mean we need to make changes to our process to allow you the best possible platform to succeed, and we are happy to cater to any reasonable adjustments you may require. You will find the section to let us know of these at the bottom of your application form or you can mention it directly to your recruiter at any stage and they will be happy to help.

About Capco

Capco is a global technology and business consultancy, focused on the financial services sector. We are growing at fast pace in our Italian office, the opportunity for growth is large, accessible, and immediate. We are passionate about helping our clients succeed in an ever-changing industry. Capco is going through a significant growth journey, now is a very good time to join us as we expand our consulting team in Italy.

Role Description:

We are looking for engineers who want to play a key part in supporting the evolution of the Financial Services industry one project at a time. You will be expected to be a strong team player who prides themselves on delivering modern, first-class cloud based platforms through practicing best in class Agile ways of working at all times.

Skills and Experience

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Excellent knowledge of Java 8+, Spring Boot, Gradle, Maven, Mockito, Microservice architecture
• Excellent knowledge of Object-oriented programming and familiarity with functional programming languages
• Excellent understanding of collections and concurrency in Java
• Experience in working with restful APIs
• Good understanding of different databases (Relational and NoSQL)
• Expert knowledge in the unit test, static code analysis and BDD/TDD
• Experience in continuous integration with Git, Jenkins, Nexus
• Practices Agile methodologies
• Able to do code reviews/ mentor and train junior developers
• Write highly available, maintainable, and secure code
• Good understanding of Web and Architectural design patterns
• Stakeholder Management and able to communicate well to all the team members
• Experience with container technologies including Docker / Kubernetes

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of Terraform and Event-driven architecture
• Golang
• Participated in redesigning a monolith system to a set of microservices
• Knowledge of serverless functions like AWS Lambda/Azure Functions/GCP functions
• Have experience in Messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ etc.)
• Good understanding of Service Security Protocols (OAuth2, SAML etc.)
• Practical experience on at least one cloud
• Experience in integration with 3rd party applications and vendors
• Experience in integration of QA automation tools
• Great understanding of the Solid Principles, OWASP, CAP Theorem and Distributed Systems Design

Why join Capco?

You will work on engaging projects with some of the largest banks in the world, on projects that will transform the financial services industry.

We offer:

• A work culture focused on innovation and building lasting value for our clients and employees
• Ongoing learning opportunities to help you acquire new skills or deepen existing expertise
• A flat, non-hierarchical structure that will enable you to work with senior partners and directly with clients
• A diverse, inclusive, meritocratic culture

Location: Piazza Gae Aulenti 1, Milano (Garibaldi FS/MM Garibaldi) 

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